Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 11

A sneeze can spray droplets several metres, so the advice is to catch it in a tissue, bin it, then wash your hands, or sneeze into your elbow.

Who acts: sneeze, advice · What happens: spray, be, bin, wash, sneeze · To what, where: droplets, tissue, sneeze, hands, elbow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sneeze, advice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sneeze	det
2	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spray	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spray	aux
4	spray	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spray	obj
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spray	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 catch	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 catch	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 advice	det
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 catch	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spray	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 catch	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 tissue	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tissue	det
18	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bin	punct
20	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 catch	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bin	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wash	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 wash	advmod
24	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bin	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wash	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sneeze	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 sneeze	cc
29	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wash	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 elbow	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 elbow	nmod:poss
32	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sneeze	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spray	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	can	a sneeze	droplets			several metres obl:unmarked	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme
2	is	present	the advice		a tissue		catch property	tree rules
3	bin	infinitive	the advice not said here	sneeze				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	wash	infinitive	the advice not said here	your hands		then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	sneeze	infinitive	the advice not said here		your elbow			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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